This is a personal, cultural journey down one of the greatest waterways in the world. The Volga rises north-west of Moscow and flows north, east and south through the heart of Russia, ending in the Caspian Sea. From source to mouth, it is 2290 miles long and is the 15th largest river in the world. Chamberlain's journey brings to life a picture of a people in violent transition determined to preserve their cultural and architectural heritage, and a river bearing the full complexity of Russia's medieval and modern history. Her search for the cultural identity of the Volga led her back to half-forgotten novels, pictures, films and songs, and she rekindles memories for the literature of Alexei Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky. This is a work of travel literature and social and cultural history for both the layman and the scholar.

Volga, Volga: A journey down Russia's great river

Travel

Lesley Chamberlain

Europe

Picador

Volga, Volga

An accessible and moving biography of Friedrich Nietzsche's life in Turin, Italy, during 1888--the last year before his famous nervous breakdown--when he wrote three of his most influential works. "An excellent primer . . . entertaining and meticulously researched . . . a precise portrait of one of the stranger European cities".--Ian Thomson, "The Independent on Sunday".

Nietzsche in Turin : The End of the Future

Quartet Books

In a place like that

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

The food and cooking of Russia

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Regional & International

Allen Lane.

The Futurist Cook Book

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Trefoil Publications Ltd

The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia

History

Russia

ATLANTIC BOOKS *

Lesley Chamberlain has been pondering the enigma of Russia for over thirty years. She finds that during the last two centuries Russian intellectuals have asked two fundamental questions: 'what makes a good man?' and 'what is the right way to live?' In their attempts to answer them, Chamberlain shows how these thinkers neglected the role of the individual, prioritizing instead the need to end injustice and autocracy. It was not until the ever of the revolution of 1917 that Russian philosophers came to grips with individualism, only for this endeavor to be fragmented and forced underground by the totalitarian century that followed. The end of Communism and the rediscovery of that semi-concealed world have allowed us to see a continuous Russian philosophical tradition far removed from the crude notion of Western reason introduced by Lenin. The deeper Russian tradition with its affinities to poetry and theology emerges in radical ideas about ethics and knowledge.

Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2005] LESLEY CHAMBERLAIN

Cooking Around the World: Polish &amp; Russian-70 Traditional Step-By-Step Dishes From Eastern Europe

Cooking Around the World: Polish & Russian-70 Traditional Step-By-Step Dishes From Eastern Europe

Annes Publishing

Anyone's Game

Harbour Books East Ltd

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